Former VP of Sales · Fractional GTM engineering studio

Fractional GTM Engineering for B2B SaaS Startups

Founding GTM helps Seed to Series B SaaS teams build the systems behind repeatable revenue: outbound, CRM, RevOps, AI automation, data workflows, and pipeline visibility, led by a former VP of Sales who can also execute technically.

Former VP of Sales. GTM operator. RevOps builder. AI automation engineer.

gtm.system / revenue-pipeline
live
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ICP
Targeting
02
Data
Enrichment
03
Outbound
Sequences
04
CRM
HubSpot / SF
05
AI Workflows
Research · Prep
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Pipeline
Forecasting
ICP → Data
Enriching
sync
Outbound → CRM
Routing
sync
AI → Pipeline
Updating
sync
The problem

Your GTM motion should not live in scattered spreadsheets, manual follow-ups, and half-built CRM workflows.

Early-stage SaaS teams often know what needs to happen, but the actual system behind the motion is fragmented. Sales process, CRM data, outbound execution, AI tools, enrichment, handoffs, reporting, and data flow all end up disconnected.

Founder-led sales is becoming hard to scale

Reps spend too much time on research and admin

CRM data is messy or unreliable

Outbound is inconsistent across people and campaigns

AI tools exist, but they are not wired into the workflow

Leadership lacks clear visibility into pipeline execution

The difference

Senior GTM judgment. Hands-on technical execution.

Founding GTM sits between sales leadership, RevOps, automation, AI implementation, and data systems. You get someone who understands pipeline, sales process, forecasting, messaging, and team execution, but can also build the workflows, automations, dashboards, and integrations required to make the strategy real.

Traditional GTM Advisor
  • Strategy decks
  • Recommendations
  • Playbooks
  • Limited implementation
Founding GTM
  • GTM strategy
  • CRM and RevOps execution
  • AI workflow builds
  • Outbound systems
  • Data integrations
  • Automation
  • Ongoing optimization
What I build

What Founding GTM Builds

GTM Systems Audit

Find the gaps in your funnel, CRM, outbound process, reporting, handoffs, data flow, and automation. Identify what is slowing the team down and what should be rebuilt first.

Outbound Engine Buildout

Create targeting, messaging, enrichment, routing, follow-up, and rep workflows that generate cleaner pipeline and make outbound execution easier to manage.

RevOps, CRM + Data Infrastructure

Clean up sales stages, lifecycle logic, workflows, dashboards, pipeline views, data quality, routing, reporting, and data flow across your GTM stack.

AI Automation for GTM Teams

Build practical AI workflows for account research, lead scoring, personalization, call prep, CRM updates, follow-up, qualification, sales enablement, and rep execution.

Tools, data, and automation systems I build across:
HubSpotSalesforceApolloLinkedInClay-style enrichment workflowsMakeZapiern8nOpenAICustom AI skillsBubbleSupabaseAPIsWebhook workflowsInternal databasesData syncsCustom SaaS/product workflows
Engagements

Three Ways to Build Your GTM System

Teams that need clarity before they build.

GTM Systems Audit

A focused diagnostic engagement to map your current GTM motion, identify broken workflows, find automation opportunities, uncover data gaps, and prioritize the highest-leverage fixes.

Start with an Audit
Teams that need a specific system built.

GTM Engine Buildout

A project-based engagement to build a specific outbound, CRM, AI, automation, data, or RevOps system from strategy through implementation.

Build the System
Teams that need ongoing GTM systems leadership.

Fractional GTM Engineer

Ongoing support for startups that need senior GTM strategy plus hands-on technical execution across sales systems, automation, CRM, AI workflows, data connectivity, and pipeline operations.

Book a GTM Systems Call

Available for fractional and project-based engagements.

Who it's for

Built for SaaS teams that need more than advice.

Best fit for

  • Seed to Series B B2B SaaS startups
  • Founder-led teams ready to build a repeatable GTM motion
  • Sales teams using HubSpot or Salesforce but not getting enough value from them
  • Startups experimenting with AI but lacking practical GTM implementation
  • Revenue teams that need better outbound, cleaner data, and stronger pipeline visibility
  • Founders who need a builder, not another advisor

Probably not a fit for

  • Teams only looking for generic sales coaching
  • Companies that want strategy decks but no implementation
  • Businesses unwilling to fix messy process or data issues
  • Teams looking for a junior automation contractor instead of a senior GTM operator
  • Companies that are not ready to test, measure, and iterate
Process

Audit. Build. Launch. Optimize.

01

Diagnose

Map the current GTM motion, funnel, CRM, tools, workflows, data, and bottlenecks.

02

Design

Prioritize the highest-leverage systems across pipeline, outbound, automation, AI workflows, data flow, and reporting.

03

Build

Implement workflows, automations, dashboards, AI processes, CRM logic, integrations, rep-facing systems, and operating rhythms.

04

Optimize

Measure what works, improve the system, and turn the motion into something repeatable.

About

Senior GTM leadership. Hands-on systems execution.

Founding GTM is led by Tom Melbourne, a former SaaS VP of Sales and startup operator working at the intersection of sales leadership, RevOps, AI automation, data systems, and hands-on GTM execution.

Tom has built SaaS products, CRM-integrated marketplace apps, outbound systems, AI-powered workflows, sales training tools, automation engines, and revenue systems for startup teams.

His work is built around a simple belief: the next generation of GTM leaders will not just manage the revenue process. They will build it.

Tom Melbourne, founder of Founding GTM
Tom Melbourne
  • Former SaaS VP of Sales
  • Fractional GTM Engineer
  • Founder, Founding GTM

Need a GTM leader who can also build?

Founding GTM helps B2B SaaS startups design, build, and optimize the systems behind pipeline, outbound, CRM, RevOps, AI automation, data connectivity, and revenue execution.